ET and his intergalactic phone call
When Lynne blogged about her ET phone home block a couple of weeks I knew I wanted to make lots of them into a quilt using my Terrain charm packs (plus extras ) and, inspired by Susan's Terrain quilt , a navy solid for the background and I waited patiently to see if she would be making her pattern available for us to buy. Last week Lynne (who is one of the most generous and talented quilters I know) published the (free) foundation piecing templates for the block and, after a request from me, she set to on her ipad and created some hand piecing templates for me to try. (Honestly, I think I gave her a headache...or an ache somewhere lower...trust me to be awkward!) After printing out the templates on freezer paper I spent quite a while sorting through my scraps to find fabric that would work with the navy background. I didn't want to use any of the fabrics I'd set aside for the 'real' project so I searched my scraps for four colours that would work together an...